Gin and Cake is a live-watch exploration of one of the most weirdly popular reality shows on television: The Great British Bake-Off or, as it's known in the US, The Great British Baking Show.

In it, generally polite people compete to bake cookies and cake while wandering around a tent on a bucolic English estate, all in pursuit of the most fabulous prize imaginable — a cake plate. Absurd? Yes! Which is probably why we, like so many millions of other people, love it.

For this biweekly podcast, Sharon Handy and Joël Bellucci comment, question, wax rhapsodic, and speculate wildly about things we could probably know if only we weren’t too lazy to look them up on the Internet. There's also a bunch of baking trivia. And a few Star Trek references, because that's never wrong.

And we do it all while sipping delicious adult beverages, and we hope you’ll join us in that, as well.

Find Gin and Cake on iTunes (click here) and other podcast distributors.

With our love of storytelling, podcasting is a natural creative outlet for the Handymakes team. Our first, Gin and Cake, is an irreverantly reverential exploration of a cultural phenomenon. Coming next is a podcast for kids that takes a single topic and puts it under a multidisciplinary microscope, revealing amazing bits of global history, art, language, culture, and humor.Keep your ears tuned!